The NIU wrestling team travels to Milwaukee, Wis., tonight for a 6 p.m. match with Marquette and Wisconsin-Parkside. Huskie head coach Ed Vatch worked his team hard in practice this week in preparation for tonight's match. Vatch is trying to keep his...

Jim Rosborough's Huskies will try to recover from last night's heartbreaking 83-81 loss to Illinois-Chicago when Central Florida invades Chick Evans Field House tonight at 7 p.m. The Huskies, now 5-17, could salvage a four-game homestand by defeating...

Beyond the playing field Sports moves into the so-called "real world" of journalism. The news pages of The Northern Star have been flooded with sports-related stories lately, and I'm not talking about athletes showing up on the police blotter. In the...

That hurts. The NIU men's basketball team discovered the meaning of agony Monday night at Chick Evans Field House when Illinois-Chicago's Nate Chambers canned a three-point basket at the buzzer to beat NIU 83-81. The Huskies' record fell to 5-17 while...

It was a sad occasion for some, but the sadness was compensated for with a victory. In their last home meet of the season Saturday, both NIU swim teams won against Eastern Illinois, with the men scoring 124-78 and the women 122-74. Home-pool advantage...

NIU's soccer team took to the indoor turf this past weekend as coach Willy Roy began looking forward to next season. Roy's boys won the 16-team tournament at Soccer Enterprises, Inc. in Palatine that marked the start of a six-week spring session, during...

NIU grapplers (2-12-1) lost 22-12 Saturday to ninth-ranked Ohio State (13-4) at the Chick Evans Field House. The Huskies' 190-pounder, Tom Hoy, looked very impressive in his match with OSU's Brian Reid. Reid (2-1-0) was brutalized by an aggressive Hoy...

It's over. Finally. The NIU men's basketball team snapped a month-long, 10-game losing skid Saturday by outrunning the Blue Devils of Central Connecticut State 94-80 in front of 1,134 at Chick Evans Field House. NIU upped its record to 5-16 while CCSU,...

The President of the State Chamber of Commerce Friday criticized NIU's decision to withdraw from the chamber. NIU President John LaTourette announced the decision at a press conference in Lowden Hall Thursday. He said NIU might withdraw because the state...

The Huskies snapped their 10-game nightmare Saturday, but it took a number of season highs and team firsts to do it. For the first time in Jim Rosborough's two-year reign, NIU won a game in which the opposition scored 80 or more points. The 94-80 win...

The NIU men's basketball team knocked a stubborn monkey off its back Saturday. But head coach Jim Rosborough, who saw his team end a 10-game losing streak, knows the fans will not be satisfied with one in a row. The second-year NIU coach would like to...

Taking it one step at a time paid off for the NIU women's basketball team in its 69-67 win over the Marquette Warriors Saturday night at Milwaukee. Before Saturday night's contest, head coach Jane Albright said she just wanted her squad to take each game...